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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Wolfe
EAN: 9781893410640
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1893410641
Label: Picture This
Languages: FrenchOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Picture This
MPN: WLFD4096D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Picture This
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Running Time: 88 minutes
Studio: Picture This
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Studio: Wolfe Video Release Date: 05/24/2005 Run time: 88 minutes Rating: Nr
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Rating:  -
Excellent movie, engaging actors who make you care about what happens. The subject matter is never addressed in american films as well as this, even with subtitles it is a gem. Highly reccomend for its frank and current look at a male love story. This is reality in a movie!
Rating: -
One of my favorite gay films.
A large portion of the plot concerns coming out to parents... Watch it.
Rating:  -
A friend recommended this film to me and even though my college French is rusty and the subtitles were annoying sometimes, I did enjoy this movie. Why? The chemistry between the two leads, Cyrille Thouvenin and Stephan Guerin-Tillie who play the lovers, Laurent and Cedric.
While this could have been another "coming out" film, the heart-felt portrayal of Laurent (Thouvenin) attempting to please his homophobic parents while having a love affair with another man and trying to keep his two worlds from colliding was moving. In the end, the truth had to be told and I felt this was a realistic journey of one man's step from childhood into adulthood and finally acceptance of himself as a gay man.
Now, I still prefer "Shelter" and "Latter Days" for their style, pacing and overall likeability as the premiere 'coming out' films of the last ten years, but "Just A Question of Love" should also be included on your viewing list too.
Rating: -
"Just A Question Of Love" is such a really good movie. The plot is one that has been done again and again. A young gay man Laurent (Cyrille Thouvenin) is in love with Cedric (Stephan Guerin-Tilie) but cannot tell his parents Jeanne (Daniele Denie) and Pierre (Idwig Sephane) that he is gay in part because a beloved first cousin Marc has just died and who did tell his parents about his sexuality and was not even visited in the hospital while he was dying. Laurent is well aware of how his parents felt about Marc, who was like a brother to him. Add to that the additional conflict between the two lovers because Cedric is open to his mother Emma (Eva Darlan) and keeps urging Laurent to come out to his parents. Of course, Laurent feels he can't right now and hides behind a so-called romantic relationship that his parents buy into of course between him and a very understanding Carole (Caroline Veyt). With a less talented group of actors, this film could have degenerated to a basic gay soap opera. The actors, to a person, are superb. They are not cardboard creations but complex many-sided characters. Emma, for instance, sounds like so many parents when she reminds Laurent that she had difficulty with her only son Cedric's sexuality-- he told her at his father's funeral-- but that she did not want to lose his love so she adjusted. There are many other wonderful scenes, particularly when Emma tells Laurent's parents that their son is in love with her son. No wonder that Laurent tells her that he wishes she were his mother. I particularly like the scene when Cedric makes a surprise visit to Laurent's father's pharmacy to buy aspirin. Laurent's terror that he is about to be outted is palpable.
"Just A Question Of Love"-- Laurent, after being outted by Emma, tells his father that "it is not just about being gay or straight, but just a question of love"-- is one of the best films on the subject of being gay that I've seen lately. Highly recommended.
Rating:  -
After reading such good reviews here, I was seriously disappointed in this movie. It's the weakest of the seven gay romances I've watched recently (even weaker than Latter Days, which says a lot).
I didn't see any convincing chemistry between the two lead characters, although Stéphan Guérin-Tillié is one of those straight French actors who play gay very convincingly. His Cédric is mature, sensible and intensely masculine, with a kind of controlled, smoldering fire that's profoundly attractive. I can see why just about anybody would fall for him.
But Cyrille Thouvenin's Laurent is just a pain in the [...], a spoiled, petulant, completely selfish 20-something baby who sulks and throws tantrums at the drop of a hat and is generally about as unattractive as a grown man can be. I don't believe for a minute that a cool guy like Cédric would look twice at Laurent, much less hang around after the first tantrum. If Laurent were supposed to be in his early teens, his behavior might be a little easier to take, but he's supposed to be close to finishing university, an age when men who throw tantrums are seriously unattractive regardless of sexual orientation. He spouts pretentious poetry and misses his dead cousin--so what? That's no excuse for being such a jerk. He's just a big baby, and he's not even cute.
Another French movie with a spoiled young coming-outer is "À cause d'un garçon" (You'll Get Over It), in which Julien Baumgartner plays a similarly self-centered seventeen-year-old. But in addition to being a lot younger and better behaved, Baumgartner's character has many other redeeming qualities, including gentleness, a genuinely haunting melancholy, and tons of charm; overall he's a much more complex and interesting person. Laurent, in this movie, has no positive qualities at all that I can see.
There are also big problems with the movie's credibility. Cédric is supposed to be such an eminent research botanist that the French government let him work from home, but his lab looks like a middle-school science project, and you sense that the pseudo-scientific dialog sounds ridiculous even to the actors speaking it. Then when Cédric and Laurent have a cutesy water fight in the lab using random containers of variously-colored liquids, and end up splashing their way to bed through the flooded lab floor, any remaining credibility vanishes.
Another particularly incredible development is when Laurent's parents don't even recognize Cédric when he comes to visit them, just a few weeks after an ominous surprise visit to the family pharmacy that traumatized Laurent, took place with his mother watching curiously, and ignited yet another tantrum when Laurent got back to the lab. Maybe Mom's thick glasses are supposed to be the excuse, but they don't seem much of a handicap in other scenes.
Most of the supporting characters aren't much better than Laurent is. They're one-dimensional and cartoonish, played by not very good actors. Laurent's parents and "girlfriend" are nearly as obnoxious and shallow as Laurent is, so maybe it just runs in the family.
The only supporting character who's interesting at all is Cédric's mother Emma, played beautifully by Eva Darlan. When she alone has the good sense to cut through the drama-queen crap and tell the truth, her reward is Laurent's biggest tantrum ever and his insistence at the end of the movie that she go into therapy. I think that demand is supposed to be cute, but for me it was just the nail that sealed the coffin on this unpalatable mess of a movie. I'd give it one star, but I'm saving that for a really awful movie, which--thanks only to Guérin-Tillié and Darlan--this one barely misses being.
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